The mother (George J. Webb)

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• (Posted 2024-02-23)  CPDL #79240:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 461 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The mother
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: Reynell Coates
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations

English text

Mother, mother, I remember
    When I climbed upon your knee,
And from New Year to December
    One long smile you bent on me.

Mother, mother, sits it sadly
    On my heart to think that I
Often in my boyhood, madly
    Bade that bosom heave the sigh.

Mother, mother, I remember
    When you blest the truant youth,
Fanning with your prayer the ember—
    Fading ember of the truth.

Mother, mother, sits it sadly
    On my heart to think that where
Wild adventure led me, gladly
    I forgot your tender prayer.

Mother, mother, I remember,
    On my arm you leant alone,
When by age’s bleak November
    Withered hopes were round you strewn.

Mother, mother, sits it sadly
    On my heart to think me, where
Manhood plead the debt, how badly
    I returned your early care.

Mother, mother, I remember
    (Ah, that dark, that fatal day!)
When, in dreary, chill December,
    Wild I wept above your clay.

Ever—ever—vainly—sadly—
    Now that I am growing gray,
I remember—oh! how madly—
    All the love I tossed away!

Mother, mother, to remember
    When I climbed upon your knee,
Till expires life’s latest ember,
    One long sigh I heave for thee.

God!—when time life’s cord shall sever—
    Strangers treading o’er my clay—
Oh forget—as I may never—
    All the love I tossed away!